This basically worked perfectly with nuclear weapons. Everyone took their development extremely seriously, and we’ve managed to avoid a nuclear apocalypse. If anyone could get on their computer and buy a nuke from Amazon, we would all be dead within the week.
Of course, software production and testing is a hell of a lot harder to detect via satellite imaging and seismographs and can be performed using readily available materials, so it's a good deal harder to control.
we did at least relatively okay with nuclear weapons? I notice that there are a whole lot less of them now than there were, nobody has used any, and several countries under extreme pressure still haven't developed them (taiwan, japan, south korea, armenia, venezuela, syria)
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If this sort of prevention didn't work for nuclear weapons it'll not work for anything ever.
This basically worked perfectly with nuclear weapons. Everyone took their development extremely seriously, and we’ve managed to avoid a nuclear apocalypse. If anyone could get on their computer and buy a nuke from Amazon, we would all be dead within the week.
Of course, software production and testing is a hell of a lot harder to detect via satellite imaging and seismographs and can be performed using readily available materials, so it's a good deal harder to control.
It worked — after destroying two whole cities.
we did at least relatively okay with nuclear weapons? I notice that there are a whole lot less of them now than there were, nobody has used any, and several countries under extreme pressure still haven't developed them (taiwan, japan, south korea, armenia, venezuela, syria)